Improved stake-holder for railroad-cars



A. R; BURDICK. Car-Truck Stake-Holder.

Patgnted Jan. 10,1865.

N PETERS. PHOTO-IJYHOGRAFH WASHINGYON. D. C-

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

A. It. BURDIOK, OF RAGINE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND J. D.

FOSTER, OF SAME PLACE. I

IMPROVED. STAKE-HOLDER FOR. RAILROAD-CARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 45,891, dated January 10, 1865.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Beitknown that I, A. It. BURDIOK, of Racine, in the county ot'Itacine and State of \Visconsin have invented a new and Improved Adjust able StakeHolder for Railroad-Oars; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part'of this specification, in which- Figure lis a rear-or inner view of my inven tion; Fig. 2, a vertical section of the same taken in the line a; w, Fig.1; Fig. 3, a horizontal section of the same taken in the line 3 3 Fig 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

This invention relates to a new and improved holder for securing stakes to the sides of flat or sideless railroad freight-cars.

The object of this invention is to obtain a holder for the purpose specified which will admit of the stakes being adjusted or turned down in a horizontal position when required, so as to obviate the necessity of detaching or removing the stakes from the car at any time when an upright position of them is not required, as in loading and unloading a car, (to. By this means the stakes, not requiring to be detached from the car at anytime, are not liable to become lost or mislaid, are always ready for use when required, and in case of breakage new ones may be readily applied.

A represents a box, which may be of cast metal, and of slightly conical form, and havin g a square opening, a, at two opposite sides or points, to receive a tenon, b, at the lower end of the stake B, the stake being secured in the box by a screw, 0, passin g through the head of the latter into the tenon, the stake of course being of wood. The inner end of the box A is provided with a flange, d, which extends all around the box, and said flange has a recess or notch, 0, made in it, and is provided with two projections, f f, which are at opposite points on the flange, the notch or recess 6 being mid. way between them, as shown in Fig. 1.

U represents a cast-metal collar, which is provided with a circular flange, g, within which notch or recess 6 of the flange (1 when the stake B is in an upright position and holds the stake in that position, as shown in black outline in Fig. 1.

In order to turn down the stake to a horizontal position, all that is required is simply to raise the box A a trifle to admit ofthe notch or recess ebein g free from the projection h of the collar 0, the internal elliptical opening of the collar admitting of that result, and the box A may be turned until one of the projections f of the flange d strikes the projection h, as shown in red outline in Fig. 1.

I Thus by this simple arrangement the stakes are permanently secured to the car, and the former may be adjusted in either an upright or horizontal position, as may be required, obviatin g the necessity of detaching the stakes from the car at any time.

I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent The box A provided with the flange (I, having a notch or recess, 6, and two projections, f f, one or both,in combination with the collar 0, provided with the flange 9, internal elliptical opening, and the projection h, all arranged substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

A. It. BURDIOK.

Witnesses GEO. J. WRIGHT, WM. TUBER. 

